The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-21
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OF the peers of Japan, the income OF frlnce
Shimazu is the largest, being S2o0'OOo per an
mum.
THERE are 10000 milliners in New York and
Brooklyn. or about one bonnet maker to every
| fifty women.
The liquor dealers in Boston viii take an
active part in the State campaign in so far as it
relates to the Senatorial districts.
IT rs REPORTED in China papers that arrange
ments. have been made whereby direct tele-
graphic communication will be established be-
tween China and Europe.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD is said to seriously
contemplate resigning his seat in the United
States Senate. He thinks the game OF public
life is not worth the candle.
ONE of the most remarkable catches of eels
was made in the Findlay mill-dam, near Pleas
ant Hill. Pa, one night last week, the NUMBER
secured being not less than 42o.
DR.. Bu1ssoN, of Paris, claims to cure hydro
phobia by hot baths often repeated He makes
the patient remain continually in a hot room,
and the baths are made as hot as 1920.
AN EXCHANGE has been figuring on the Presi-
dents Misunderstanding, 1t finds that in greeting
5000 people his hand would traverse distance
of more than four miles, allowing feet for each
shake.
WoRKMEN laying the foundation of a railroad
shed in Portland, Ne, on Sept. 1, found ice
that in hot summer Maine thaws out for dis
lance down.
The Register of Deeds in Mecklenburg county,
North Carolina, recently found q conveyance
recorded in ITO 1t was for 300 acres of land;
the title to which was guaranteed forever ana
a day or two longer
SAvANTs have discovered that the hair of the
prong-horned antelope, like that of man, is
made to stand erect by sudden fright. Investi-
cation in this line might take in the hedgehog
and the ridge-pole cat.
The English carry bad taste in advertising to
greater extent than is done in this country.
A big picture of Gen Gordon on his deathbed
used as an advertisement for patent medicine,
appears in a London woman's journal
In a Louisiana hamlet the ceremonies in cele-
bration of the Jewish New Year were held in the
Baptist church, and the music was led by
Jewish woman the wife of Catholic, who is of
mixed Protestant and Catholic descent.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has presented to D. NJ. Davies,
of Bryn Mawr, in recognition of his services
| twenty-five years ago as guide on the Pennde-
marn Mountains, plank OF oak grown on the
Hawarden estate and felled by Mr.. Gladstone
himself.
/ A TEXAS WOMAN of an experimental turn of
mind put some eggs in a bin of cotton seed, and
healthy brood of chickens was Matched out in
| due time. II is her intention to pursue the eX
perence further and see whether the chickens
won't make good salad without olive oil
FARMER at Sherman, Tex, has died from
screw-worms in his head. About two weeks ago
he took an out-of door nap after having bleeding
at the nose 1t is believed that the Screw-fly de-
positedits larvae on the blood in his nostrils.
| BowDoIN student named Cilley climbed
by lightning rod to the top of spire on Kings
| Chapel at Brunswick Me- the other night and
| fastened there white flag bearing his class
1 numerals in token of a victory gained over the
! Freshmen. The spire is of stone 100 feet high.
| A WOMAN named Louisa Smith has instituted
suit against the village of Wharton, Ont. for
allowing young man to be buried in a lot next
| hers on which she has tenement house. Her
| claim is based on her assertion that while the
corpse remained there the house was unten-
i anted.
| AT Washington, Ind, says an exchange,
mule was tied to the frame supporting the fire.
| bell at the corner of Maine and Second streets.
| Being humoTously inclined, it would catch the
rope in its teeth and giving it jerk tap the bell
| to the great amusement of the large crowds
| which stood at the corners.
Miss FRANCES L. WILLARD suggests that the
women or the United States should purchase
| Whittiers old home and keep it beautiful to his
! memory. Whittier was peculiarly the poet of
| woman, and it is probable that any sum neces-
| sary to carry out Miss Wizards suggestion
| could easily be collected from them.
A MAN was killed by lightning in the upper
part of King William county, Virginia, on Thurs
| day night, under peculiar circumstances He
was in bed, his wife lying by his side, when the
| lightning struck, passed through window, and
| out of the door The man was instantly killed
| but his wife received only very slight shock.
MISS IDA H. ADDS, of Los Angeles, has pre-
pared her papers for a $4,000 breach of
| promise suit against ex-Gov John G.. Downey
| of San Francisco She will charge that ex-Gov.
| Downey won her heart some years ago, and
| that he now declines to make her his wife Miss
| Adds is the leading literary woman of the
| coast.
ANDREW GRoUTHA, Russian, who travels the
country with trick BEARS has sued J. Bolliard, j.
| NJ. Stevenson and H. Miller, of Monroeville, O..
for $500. After one Of his exhibitions he went
to sleep in shed with his bears, but was soon
| after notified to leave town, and, failing to do
so, one of his bears was shot. He now seeks to
| recover its alleged value.
ELIZA FoxALL, a young married woman, and
a fortune teller named Scrafton, of Hartlepool,
Eng, are trial a charge of conspiracy to
| poison Foxall, who was barber of Sunderland
| The defense is that what was administered was
not poison, but simply o love charm prepared
| for the wife for the purpose of enabling her to
regain her husbands love.
THE Virginia City (Nev,) Enterprise says; "a
letter from Lillian Smith, the champion rifle
shot, enumerates a number of presents received
by her in London among which are diamonds,
two collie dogs leach fifty pounds weight, one
| skye terrier, a parrot. one monkey, three cats a
canary bird, and spaniel dog She reports
| herself tired of London, and will be glad To get
back to the home of her childhood.
| 2. c. CHENEY, of Adams county, Mississippi
accompanied by his wife and little child. had
| gone out to hunt for muscadines. In climbing
| a tree he became sick and faint from the nm
usual exertion, and told his wife below of his
condition, warning her to get from under the
tree. A moment afterwerd he fell TO the ground
from height of about so feet sustaining in
juries from which he died two hours after
| WOMAN told Mr.. She'll, at Greenwich Police
Court lately, that she had been twice married
both husbands being sons of one mother. but
| not the same father Eighteen months after the
death of the first she married the second who
refuses to support her, and she desired the
magistrates advice on the legality of the mar
| rage. The English law does not allow her to
| marry two brothers. but whether she has done
so is legal conundrum.
THE first volume of the ancient History of
the Maori" has just been published. For some
| years past John White, one of the best authori-
j ties on Maori lore, has been engaged on This
| book under the auspices of the government n
| is a translation of the traditions and mvtholoov
| of the different tribes and II will be valuable in
| future times to scientific men, and when ner
| haps no one would be left who could collect and
translate native traditions.
| A FUNNY FELLOW who owns diamond has
j L.